Out of respect for those that choose, or must, live here, I won't reveal the name, but I'm afraid to say this isn't the only sad little town in the hills of West Virginia.

I have never in my life seen so many partially destroyed or fully abandoned buildings in a town this size. It seemed like every other building...

This wasn't the only abandoned school - there were several scattered around town.

Sometimes the only way you could tell if a building was inhabited was by the satellite dishes in the front yard.

That's not to say there weren't SOME attempts to renovate and improve.

There were quite a few of these oil pumps working around town - but also quite a few that weren't, so I would guess the well is running dry.

On may way out of town this sign caught my eye so I thought I'd check out State Route 8 to see what I could see.

I was a little shocked to see the stream ran right over the road. That's just the way it is out there.

But cute little streams turn dangerous in flash floods. Not sure how these people get from the road to their house these days.

At first the countryside seemed to have the same proportion of abandoned houses (too many to count).

But then things began to look up. I remember seeing this exact advertisement painted on countless barns when I was growing up in Ohio.

Things definitely improving - they even had this as kind of a museum of sorts.

Then I realized I actually crossed the border somewhere and I WAS in fact back in Ohio (that's the state flag on the far right).